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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Software Engineer - SRE - **Company:** Preply Inc. - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Build Automation, Cloud Computing, Code Generation, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, System Availability, Data Analytics, Virtual Agents - **Published:** September 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-platform-software-engineer-sre-preply-com-8126298 ## About the Role * Extensive experience (~8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems. * AI Expertise: You're a forefront user of Agentic AI. You're able to bring hands-on experience and start influencing the team beyond code generation; reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and being able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives. * Proficient software engineering skills (Python preferred). * Experience with at least one major public cloud, its services and infrastructure (preferably AWS). * Experience in implementing observability and alerting. * Willingness to participate on paid on-call rotations. * Business-orientation and data-driven approach. * Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level. ## Description The Platform Tribe builds and operates the platform that Preply engineers develop and deploy on, and that millions of learners and tutors rely on every day. Our platform handles over 20bln requests per month, and we combine software engineering, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to keep it reliable at scale while making it faster and easier for engineering teams to build on top of it. As part of the SRE team, you'll focus on: * Reliability at scale: maintaining high availability while traffic continues to grow. * Platform scalability: evolving the systems that support Preply as our product and engineering organisation grow. * Developer productivity: building core services and tooling that help engineers ship safely and quickly - we run 100+ successful production deployments every business day. * Efficient infrastructure: improving performance and reliability while making thoughtful FinOps trade-offs. We work in small teams with significant ownership, so you'll have a real say in architecture, technical decisions and how our platform evolves., The Senior Platform Software Engineer role in our SRE team combines software engineering practices with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems patterns, storage systems and observability to deliver on a wide range of projects - ranging from tooling to core Platform services which serve production traffic. * Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence. * Improve the system's scalability, observability, and alerting. * Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development. * Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. * Collaborate with product teams to help them tackle technical issues and design new systems. * Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team's technical execution. * Follow the best FinOps practices. * Participate in on-call rotation across the team. ## Related Videos - [The Algorithm That Nearly Killed Me: When Testing Isn't Enough](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2110-the-algorithm-that-nearly-killed-me-when-testing-isn-t-enough) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Guiding Agentic AI with Vue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2033-guiding-agentic-ai-with-vue) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Where we're going we don't need JavaScript - Programming with Type Annotations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/455-where-we-re-going-we-don-t-need-javascript-programming-with-type-annotations) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)